03 · Consulting

Experienced technical judgement, when you need it.

Reviews and advice for software, infrastructure and the decisions around them, from people who build and run systems themselves and look at the whole picture rather than one component.

Consulting

A second opinion from people who look at the whole system.

Reviews and advice for software, infrastructure and the decisions around them — from someone who looks at the whole system.

Vibe Code Consulting

Built it with AI and now you're wondering what exactly you built?

We can inspect the system, find the problems, and help you turn the prototype into something you can actually operate.

  • Architecture
  • Code
  • Security
  • Authentication & authorisation
  • Database
  • Infrastructure & deployment
  • Performance
  • Maintainability
  • Production-readiness

Assessment required How a review works

Infrastructure consulting

You built the app. Now what?

Once software is real, where it runs, how it ships, how it's backed up and who notices when it breaks all start to matter. We look at the whole system, not one component of it.

  • Architecture review
  • Cloud infrastructure and hosting
  • Deployment strategy and CI/CD
  • Domains, DNS and networking
  • Databases and backups
  • Containers
  • Observability and operational workflows
  • Cost and security considerations

Assessment required Details

Services

Every consulting service, in detail.

  • Vibe Code Consulting

    Built it with AI? We review what was built and tell you what to fix before it goes to production.

    More about Vibe Code Consulting
    Assessment required
  • Infrastructure consulting

    Hosting, deployment, backups, databases and operations: a plan for running your software once it is real.

    What's included
    • Architecture review
    • Cloud infrastructure and hosting
    • Deployment strategy and CI/CD
    • Domains, DNS and networking
    • Databases and backups
    • Containers
    • Observability and operational workflows
    • Cost and security considerations
    Assessment required
  • Architecture reviews

    An independent look at how a system is designed, where it will strain, and what to change first.

    What's included
    • System design review
    • Scaling and failure points
    • Data flow and dependencies
    • A prioritised list of changes
    Assessment required
  • Technical assessments

    A clear answer to a technical question: should we build or buy, can this be rescued, what will this take.

    What's included
    • Build-versus-buy decisions
    • Vendor and platform evaluation
    • Rescue assessments for stalled projects
    • Estimates for proposed work
    Assessment required

When it helps

Good reasons to call in a second opinion.

  • Something works, but nobody knows why

    A system grew faster than its documentation, and the person who understood it has moved on.

  • A big decision is coming

    A migration, a rewrite, a new platform or a vendor contract that will be expensive to undo.

  • Costs keep creeping up

    Hosting bills, licences or developer time growing without an obvious reason.

  • It's about to meet real users

    A prototype or an AI-built tool is about to be trusted with customers or money.

Contact

Need a second opinion?

You don't need to know which service you need. Describe what's going on, and working out the rest is our job.

  • IT problems
  • Software ideas
  • Infrastructure
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Consulting
  • System reviews
  • Strange technical problems

contact@skullsolutions.com